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NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETING: TORONTO
Presented in collaboration with the Museum Computer Network
and the Canadian Heritage Information Network
"Creating Museum IP Policy in a Digital World"
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2002/toronto.html
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Museum Computer Network Conference
Hilton Toronto Hotel
Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm
Free of Charge * Open to All
Registration Required: http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm
This program is made possible by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation
In a world where many content-providers are worried about digital
misappropriation of material, and users are concerned about
inaccessible, expensive or low-grade resources, how important is it
for museums to have clear and fair intellectual property policy to
monitor and control the use and distribution of digital content and
how do they go about creating it? "Creating Museum IP Policy in a
Digital World," will attempt to answer these questions.
The 19th NINCH Copyright Town Meeting, presented at the Museum
Computer Network (MCN) conference in Toronto, in collaboration with
MCN and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) will be held
in the Hilton Toronto Hotel on Saturday September 7, 9am-4pm. The
meeting is open to all and is free of charge but registration is
required.
The Toronto Town Meeting will be part presentation, part practicum.
It will open with several speakers defining what policy is, what core
values it represents and why it is important for an institution to
have an IP policy. A keynote address will situate the role of
institutional policy within an international context. Museum legal
expert Maria Pallante will then analyze the key issues to consider
when preparing a policy.
In the second half of the meeting two practitioners will examine
policy-building. Brian Porter will report on his experience at the
Royal Ontario Museum, while Rachelle Brown of the Smithsonian
Institution will examine the importance of understanding an
institution's larger values in constructing policy. These talks will
introduce the workshop component of the Meeting, at which
participants will break into working groups to construct policy
solutions to particular museum situations. The results of the working
groups will be reviewed by a panel of all the speakers.
The focus of this meeting is designed to complement that of the NINCH
Copyright Town Meeting, held November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, on
"Creating Policy: Copyright Policies in the University." Laura
Gasaway, a key presenter and organizer of the Eugene meeting, is a
featured speaker at this meeting. A report on the Eugene Town Meeting
and workshop can be seen at
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2001/eugenereport.html
Featured speakers:
* Rachelle Brown, Assistant General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution
* Laura N. Gasaway, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
* David Muls, Senior Counsellor, Office of Legal and Organization
Affairs, World Intellectual Property Organization [invited]
* Maria Pallante, Associate General Counsel, Guggenheim Museum/Foundation
* Rina Pantalony, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information
Network
* Brian Porter, Media Resources Director, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The NINCH Copyright Town Meetings seek to balance expert opinion and
audience participation on the basics of copyright law, the
implications of copyright online, recent changes in copyright law and
practice, and practical issues related to the networking of cultural
heritage materials. The program will include plenty of time for
audience questions, comments and discussion.
Register online at http://www.mcn.edu/mcn2002/register.htm. If you
are not otherwise attending the MCN conference, please still register
online: complete your name, organization and email address, check the
NINCH Town Hall Meeting option and type "no payment required" under
credit card and expiration date. For questions, call 877.626.3800, or
email <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
For information on all NINCH Copyright Town meetings, see
http://www.ninch.org/copyright/
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Agenda
Creating IP Policy in Museums
The Importance of Institutional IP Policy: The Scope of this Meeting
- Laura N. Gasaway
- Rina Pantalony
- Questions & comment
Institutional IP Policy from an International Perspective
- David Muls [invited]
- Questions & comment
The Process of Policymaking: From I.P. Audit to Valuation and Management
- Maria Pallante
- Questions & comment
OPEN FORUM
Lunch
WORKSHOP:
Putting Together a Museum's IP Policy: A Case Study
- Brian Porter
Constructing Values: What to Put into a Policy
- Rachelle Brown
Policy Building Scenarios
Report Outs
OPEN FORUM
With All Speakers
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Toronto organizing Committee
Amalyah Keshet, Jerusalem Museum, Israel
Rina Pantalony, Canadian Heritage Information Network
Leonard Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Art
Diane Zorich, Consultant
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